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Diethylstilbestrol diacetate

chemical compound

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ27949316 ↗
Source-derived summary

Diethylstilbestrol diacetate (DESDA) (brand name Hormostilboral Stark) is a synthetic, nonsteroidal estrogen of the stilbestrol group and an ester of diethylstilbestrol (DES) that was introduced for clinical use in the 1940s and was formerly marketed but is now no longer available.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27949316. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Diethylstilbestrol diacetate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.